OTTAWA RESULTS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1932, Page 5

OTTAWA RESULTS

A SOUND NOTE STRUCK BY HON. J. G. COATES. ' (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) ■ (Received this day at 9.25 a.m; Vancouver, August ; 26. “We are well ent.tled to ‘ook with real . satisfaction upon the results' of the Conference, and I will- return to New Zealand with the sincere conviction that the hopes and beliefs in the Conference were well placed,” declared tho Hon. J. G. Gpates to-day. “I am glad, .too, that for the /most part, Empire countries in their efforts to foster trade, among themselves, proceeded along the road of diminishing tariff barriers within the Empire,' rather than along the facile way of increasing tariffs against outside countries.

“This i 9 one of the aspects of ''the Conference illustrating the ’general desire to foster world trade, and, so far as it lay in our power, to assist in the general recovery.” . 4 Mr Coates particularly attested the achievement of reconciling so many varied mnd often conflicting opinions and interests of the various parte M the Empire. He expressed thanks on behalf of. <t>he New Zealand delegation for ;the Canadian hospitality. . Mr J. Knbx, a past president of the Australian Chamber of Commerce, said that ho 'was also pleased with the results achieved at Ottawa. He visited the Vancouver Board of Trade, suggesting that Canada, and particnarly British Columbia, should be represented at the 1935 meeting of the Chamber of Commerce in New Zealand.

BRITISH DELEGATION. -A

REVIEW OF OTTAWA.

(Received this day at 11.15 a.m.)

LONDON, August 26

The British delegation has issued the following statement upon arrival at Cherbourg:—The events of the year Lausanne war loan conversion, now Ottawa —have shown that we have moved away from the area of deep depression, which has long been clouding the horizon, With this widespread inspiration, we proceed with full confidence to .the World Economic Conference which will form a fitting concision to a year: of solid' substantial advance to better times. The agreements with the Dominions at Ottawa V[ere marked by. a degree of success .far beyond anything which was expected^.We are confident it will lead to increased Empire trade, exercising an influence far beyond the Empire’s ..confines, The greater scope given to Australian, and New Zealand in British 'markets,;' will secure the. pastoralists, who are almost oh the verge of ruin, owing to the calamitous fall in wheat priecs,. Steps nre being, taken to devise the orderly marketing if supplies. 1 -